For certain items JAWS OCR is more accurate. Hopefully Vespero will take time to revamp and update Openbook. The program lacks in many areas including bugs in the settings center.
Dan
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Glenn / Lenny
Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 2:54 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: Microsoft default OCR engine with JAWS convenient OCR
I have found that OB does a better job than the convenient OCR.
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From: "Gene Warner" <genewarner3@...>
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2022 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Microsoft default OCR engine with JAWS convenient OCR
I don't know as I usually don't have time or inclination to fool around
with it. I usually just use Open Book for all my OCR work, it uses the
Abby Fine Reader engine and of the three engines, it consistently gets
the best results.
Gene...
On 7/5/2022 2:27 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

Curious,
I wonder if simply the act of switching straightens out the OCR process.
So if someone has poor results, you could try switching to Microsoft's
engine, but don't use it, and switch back to FS's engine, and see if it
works better.
Or scan with Microsoft's, and then go back to the FS engine and see if it
starts working right on the same file.

Glenn
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From: "Gene Warner" <genewarner3@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2022 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: Microsoft default OCR engine with JAWS convenient OCR


Maybe so, but I've gotten pure garbage from the JAWS default engine but
got decent results from the same document from the Microsoft engine.

And then again I've also gotten garbage from Microsoft's engine and got
good results from the default engine.

So I prefer to think that it depends on what you are scanning.

Gene...


On 7/5/2022 1:56 PM, Chris Hill wrote:

Jaws is using omnipage, likely a lot better than anything MS includes
for free.



On 7/5/2022 12:07, Loy wrote:

There is an option in JAWS to use Microsoft's default OCR engine with
JAWS convenient OCR. Is it a better OCR engine than the one that
comes with JAWS?